Géraldine Faladé (born in Porto-Novo, Benin) is a journalist and writer of Beninese origin and a former employee at Ocora Radio France, the predecessor of Radio France Internationale. She contributed to the development of the press in Chad during her career within the country's Ministry of Information.
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She is also known for her essay Turbulentes! : African Women Ahead of Their Time in which she highlights seventeen African women forgotten by history.
Biography
editEarly life, education, and beginnings
editGéraldine Faladé Touadé was born in Porto-Novo in 1935.[1][2] A descendant of King Behanzin of Dahomey, she had a maternal grandmother of Brazilian origin.[2]
She graduated from the Centre de formation des journalistes on rue du Louvre in Paris.[3]
Career
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 Turbulentes! by Géraldine Faladé Touadé Oct 3, 2020 TV5Monde Info |
Géraldine Faladé is associated with the creation of the information and culture magazine La Vie africaine,[4] which evolved in 1965 into the title L’Afrique actuelle.[5]
She worked at the Office de Coopération Radiophonique (Ocora).[4]
She contributed to the development of the press in Chad during her career within the country's Ministry of Information.[4]
She is also the author of a collection of tales, Regards et paroles du soir,[6] collected on the advice of her sister, the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Solange Faladé, and an essay, Turbulentes[7][8] in which she features the portraits of seventeen African women.[9][10]
Notes and references
edit- ^ "À l'Affiche! – Congolese Yekima glorifies slam, Beninese Géraldine Faladé honors African pioneers". France 24 (in French). 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ a b "Géraldine Faladé (author of Turbulentes!)". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ Coumba Kane (6 August 2022). "In Cameroon, the unrecognized legacy of Thérèse Sita-Bella, a pioneer of African journalism". Le Monde (in French).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link). - ^ a b c "FALADE Géraldine". Présence Africaine Editions (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ "La Vie africaine – SISMO". sismo.inha.fr. Retrieved 2021-07-15..
- ^ "People | Africultures: Faladé Géraldine". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ "These "turbulent" African pioneers forgotten by history – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2021-05-16. Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ Faladé, Géraldine (2020). Turbulentes: African Women Ahead of Their Time. Présence africaine éditions. ISBN 978-2-7087-0946-1. Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ "En sol majeur – Géraldine Faladé Touadé, discreetly turbulent". RFI (in French). 2021-07-04. Retrieved 2021-07-09..
- ^ "Géraldine Faladé : " ces femmes voulaient voir l'Afrique avancer"". TV5MONDE (in French). 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2021-07-09..
